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Some weeks ago, I had a good talk with a private collector who allowed me to post these pictures he provided to me!

For the back story he told me, his brother and him have this helmet since their childhood. Their father worked for an international plastic compagny and received this helmet as a gift (in the 80's)

The boys played with it, it's why one ears is missing (and certainly the same thing for the piece of plastic which is supposed to fix the lens on the inside). According to the owner of this helmet, this one never had decals of the rear pill box (despite the little hole which seems to show that something was fixed on this area).

It's funny to see that this helmet is more a part of family history than a relica or something like that in a collection.

Pretty neat! I had to pull out my 1997 Classic Action TIE fighter helmet to compare. The obvious difference is mine is one piece made of vinyl with screws only simulating how the multiple pieces would attach in an original helmet. The inside view of mine is the wavy unfinished vinyl whereas the one depicted here has sharper features. I presume the original was made of ABS - could you tell what the material was for this one? Here's a good reference which includes a link to a video of a presumed original TIE fighter helmet: http://www.starwarshelmets.com/original-TIE-Pilot-helmet.htm

3D scanning is great, but as an hardcore fan, a vacuumformed helmet would be so authentic ^^

I hope that one day he will convice his brother to cast the helmet! He really liked the idea to make replicas, but not his brother, which is affraid that this souvenir could be destroyed. What I respect (even if it's not risky!)

Well, if you scan it both on the inside as well as the outside - which is possible with some scanners (but of course there will be blank spots, though, you can then fix the digital sculpt at the areas that wasn't possible to scan on the inside with approximations from the outside part of the scan) - you can make an inverted print, where you basically print it as vac-form molds.

Scanning is definitely the better option if he's afraid to take it apart for vac-form molding.

WOW. what an awesome prop and story.i have a question, was the Tie fighter pilots helmets made our of the stunt trooper helmets or the hero trooper helmets? because this looks to be a hero. i only ask cause my knowledge of these props is very minimal.

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